Our view of Neanderthal life keeps getting more complex and vibrant. This replica shows how Neanderthals might have used birch […]
Category: hominins
This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art
generative AI could never The world’s oldest art has an unintentional story to tell about human exploration. These 17,000-year-old hand […]
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
The Casablanca fossils are about the same age as hominin fossils from Spain, which belong to a species called Homo […]
This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.) This artist’s impression shows what the fire at […]
10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world
“This site reveals an extraordinary story of cultural continuity,” said Braun in a recent press release. When the going gets […]
Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution
Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin […]
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis
Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached […]
Oldest wooden tools in East Asia may have come from any of three species
That leaves a few possibilities: Denisovans, Homo heidelbergensis (the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and our species), or Homo erectus. […]
We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew
It’s a Denisovan? Always has been. After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like. […]